Select Preview to confirm options before applying
the changes, and then confirm changes in the document.

Frame grid properties

Use
the Frame Grid dialog box to change frame grid settings such as
the font, character size, character spacing, lines, and characters.

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The values in the Text Frame Option dialog box
and the number of columns in the Frame Grid settings dialog box
interact dynamically. Column number settings in Text Frame Options
are also reflected in the frame grid settings. Furthermore, First Baseline
Offset and Ignore Text Wrapping can be set only from Text Frame
Options.

Font

Select the font family and font style. These font settings
will be applied in frame grids based on the layout grid.

Size

Specify the font size. This value will be the grid cell size.

Vertical and Horizontal

Specify the grid scaling for full-width Asian characters in
%.

Char Aki

Specify the spacing between grid cells in the frame grid.
This value is used for the grid mesh spacing.

Line Aki

Specify the grid spacing. This value is used as the distance
from underneath (or left of) the grid mesh on the first line to
the top (or right) of the grid mesh on the next line. If a negative
value is set here, Auto Leading value under Justification in the
Paragraph panel menu is set automatically to 80% (the default is
100%), since grid alignment will only increase line spacing above
the spacing already set by the leading amount in the text attributes.
Changing the leading value set in the text will change how the grid
alignment spreads the text lines out to match the nearest grid line.

Line Align

Select an option to specify line alignment for the text.
For example, if you select Top for a vertical frame grid, the start
of each line will be aligned to the top of the frame grid. (See Align
or justify text.)

Select an option to specify how to show the frame. Grid shows
frame grids with grids and lines. N/Z View shows the frame grid
direction in dark blue diagonal lines; these lines disappear when
you insert text. Alignment View shows frame grid with only lines.
Alignment shows the frame line alignment. Grid With N/Z shows a
combination of both.

Convert text frames and frame grids

You can convert plain text frames
into frame grids or frame grids into plain text frames.

When
plain text frames are converted into frame grids, for text that
has not had a character style or paragraph style applied in the
story, the frame grid's document defaults are applied.

You
cannot apply grid format directly to plain text frames. After converting
a plain text frame into a frame grid, you can apply grid format
attributes by applying a predetermined grid format to a frame grid
using text that has not been given a paragraph style.

Also,
when a text frame is converted to a frame grid, blank space may
be created at the top, bottom, left or right of the frame. This
space is shown when the text frame width or height is not divisible
by the font size or leading values set in the grid format. This
spacing can be removed by dragging the frame grid handle and adjusting
with the Selection tool. When converting text frames to frame grids, edit
the text after adjusting any insets created during conversion.

Convert a plain text frame into
a frame grid

Select the text frame and do one of
the following:

Choose Object > Frame Type >
Frame Grid.

Choose Type > Story to show the Story
panel. Select Frame Grid in Frame Type.

To reformat story text according to grid attributes,
select Edit > Apply Grid Format when the frame grid
is selected.

Remove a grid from a frame grid

Select the frame grid, and do one of
the following:

Choose Object > Frame Type >
Text Frame.

Choose Type > Story to show the Story
panel. Select Text Frame in Frame Type.

View or hide the frame grid character
count

The frame grid character count is shown at
the bottom of the grid. Shown here are the values for characters,
lines, total number of cells and the actual number of characters.

In this frame the value for characters per line is 10, the
value for lines is 5, and the total number of cells is 50. 29 characters
have been placed in the frame grid.